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TOAST

Yes, TOAST was the Wordle answer on January 31, 2025 (Wordle #1322).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /təʊst//toʊst//təʉst/

Noun

Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).

“I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.”

Noun

A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.

“At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.”

Verb

To cook lightly by browning by means of direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.

“We used to enjoy toasting marshmallows around the campfire.”

Verb

To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill.

“Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.”

Alternative forms: tost

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 31, 2025 (#1322).

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How TOAST performs as a guess

TOAST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,113 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___T T in the 1st position and T in the 5th position T__S_ T in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in TOAST.

First-turn measures

All four describe TOAST used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.81 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOAST performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,113 Rank among openers
Opening with TOAST left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,113 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
893
4 guesses
1,169
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
40%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B A S I C
T O A S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TOAST in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TOAST can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

457 answers
269 answers
152 answers
143 answers
139 answers
131 answers
73 answers
64 answers
57 answers
49 answers
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40 answers
34 answers
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24 answers
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19 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for TOAST; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

T1O1A1S1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

LINER CARLE CRINE DROLE PLIER DRICE

Strategy after playing TOAST

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TOAST.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOAST:

19% chance
Suggested:
LINER
11% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
CRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

19.3% →
LINER 5.97 bits
11.3% →
CARLE 5.34 bits
6.4% →
CRINE 5.31 bits
6.0% →
DROLE 4.48 bits
5.9% →
PLIER 5.32 bits
5.5% →
DRICE 4.94 bits
3.1% →
BARON 4.55 bits
2.7% →
URINE 4.75 bits
2.4% →
LITHE 4.56 bits
2.1% →
PLIER 3.77 bits

Research on TOAST

Game-tree analysis and word research for TOAST, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with TOAST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,897 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #4,012 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it TOHST.

Rhymes with COAST GHOST ROAST BOAST COSTE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TOAST is a kind of bread or celebrity.

Synonyms DRINK pledge salute CRISP

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TOAST sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 84 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

In a sentence

You should make a toast.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Would you like some toast?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).